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Article: Families seek answers from Somali leader; President Ahmed consoled relatives of young Minnesota men killed in his war-torn country.(NEWS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
- Article date:
- October 5, 2009
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Byline: RICHARD MERYHEW; ALLIE SHAH; Staff Writers
For three months, Abayte Ahmed has lived with the memory of finding a photo of her son's bloody corpse displayed on a Somali news website for all the world to see.
For three months, she has cried and agonized and wondered why her boy, Jamal, 20, abruptly left his home and family and a safe life in Minneapolis last November to return to the lawless streets of Mogadishu to train and fight with Al-Shabab, a terrorist group thought to have ties to Al-Qaida.
On Sunday, Ahmed, still grieving over the death of her son in July and desperate for answers, traveled to the St. Paul Hotel to share her pain ...
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Article: Minn. mom says missing son, 20, killed in Somalia
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July 12, 2009 ;
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...The mother of a 20-year-old Somali man missing from Minneapolis says her son has been killed in Somalia. Abayte Ahmed (ah-BYE'-tee ah-med) said Sunday through an interpreter that she and her husband identified their son, Jamal Bana ...
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